Movie plot
The film starts with a car being followed by a truck. The truck hits the car and the car flips over. A man alights (Ravi Sah) and brutally kills both the driver and the lady who were in the car. The killer then takes the bodies to a factory and burns them with acid. While doing so, he accidentally spills acid on one of his own hands.Five years Later, Inspector Jatil Yadav (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) is seen attending the wedding of his colleague Narend... [more] The film starts with a car being followed by a truck. The truck hits the car and the car flips over. A man alights (Ravi Sah) and brutally kills both the driver and the lady who were in the car. The killer then takes the bodies to a factory and burns them with acid. While doing so, he accidentally spills acid on one of his own hands.Five years Later, Inspector Jatil Yadav (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) is seen attending the wedding of his colleague Narendra Singh (Shree Dhar Dubey) where Jatil's mother Sarita Kumari (Ila Arun) is desperately searching for a girl to set him up with for marriage. Jatil is irritated and embarrassed and rushes his mother home to avoid further interference in his personal life. While eating dinner, Jatil gets called by the SSP Lalji Shukla IPS (Tigmanshu Dhulia) to investigate a high-profile murder of a rich aristocrat named Raghuveer Singh (Khalid Tyabji).Jatil learns that Raghuveer was murdered by his own gun on his wedding night and is further intrigued by the family's silence and lack of knowledge on the matter. Jatil Yadav is first introduced to the family by Ramesh Chauhan (Swanand Kirkire), brother of Raghuveer Singh's first wife (who was murdered 5 years ago). Members of Raghuveer's family include his two children - Karuna Singh (Shweta Tripathi) (daughter of Raghuveer Singh) and Karan (son of Raghuveer Singh), Chunni (Riya Shukla) (the maid of the house), Pramila Singh (Padmavati Rao) (wife of Raghuveer Singh's brother and Raghuveer Singh's sister-in-law), Vasudha (Shivani Raghuvanshi) and Vikram Singh (Nishant Dahiya) (daughter and son of Pramila), Ravi Sisodia (Gyanendra Tripathi) - the volatile husband of Karuna, and Radha (Radhika Apte) - the young bride of Raghuveer Singh. Starting the interrogation, it is revealed to Jatil that Vikram was the first one to discover Raghuveer's dead body. As per Vikram's story, he went to drop off his fiance (daughter of the notorious MLA Munna Raja (Aditya Srivastava)) at around 9:30. He returned around 11:15 and then took the ladies of the house to a temple at 12:30.It was after this that Vikram says that he found his uncle Raghuveer dead. He also says that there was wedding procession crossing in-front of the house at 10:30. Jatil eventually finds out about back stairs which connects directly to a water tank and wonders if that route was used to carry out any suspicious business. Ravi is livid and blames Radha for the death and wants to throw her out of the house. During Jatil's investigation, he begins to question Radha (he deduces that Radha was Raghuveer's mistress and now the owner of all his property). Jatil develops a soft spot for her as something tells him that she is being made a scapegoat by Raghuveer's family. Radha is treated like an outsider by the family, who resents her. After first refusing to cooperate, Radha remembers something that connects her to Jatil and gives the chit to Chunni to pass to Jatil. On the chit, the address of Radha is written and he distinctly remembers that he had saved Radha five years earlier, when she attempted suicide by jumping off a train. This further leads him to believe that Radha is an innocent and emotionally disturbed girl who is getting caught in the crossfire of what seems to be developing into an insidious plot. Further into his investigation, Jatil finds out that Raghuveer's first wife was killed during a robbery when she was coming back from Gwalior towards Kanpur.Jatil also learns that Raghuveer's son Karan had once been apprehended with drugs. Jatil realizes that there's more to Raghuveer's complicated family than what meets the eye. The next day, during the investigation, Jatil finds erotic magazines in Raghuveer's cupboard and some photos of women and a plastic bead below the bed. He also learns that Radha was sold by her father and one of the photos is of Radha with a bruised back which he found earlier. Radha continues to refrain from telling Jatil anything. Later, Munna Raja comes in after Ravi Sisodia calls him in response to Jatil's no-nonsense investigation style. While investigating the manor, Jatil also spots a senile older woman who was earlier the maid of house. The old maid's son was the driver of the car when Raghuveer's first wife was returning from Gwalior to Kanpur and she is grandmother of Chunni. Jatil continues to investigate. Forensics tell Jatil that Raghuveer was murdered between 10pm and 12pm with his own gun and blunt marks were due to because he was hit by butt of the same gun.Phone records reveal that Vikram received a phone call from his uncle at 11:30 and many phone calls from an unknown number which is identified as Radha's. No fingerprints were found on gun or on Raghuveer's phone. Jatil is perplexed that Raghuveer was shot and no one heard a thing. This could only happen when there was a lot of noise in the house between 10 pm and 11 pm. After 11 pm the house was quiet. Yet, Vikram insists that Raghuveer called him at 11 30 PM. Jatil takes Vikram for questioning after determining that Vikram and Radha were having an affair behind Raghuveer's back. Vikram's call records place him at the site of the murder at 11 PM as well and Jatil says that He and Radha killed Raghuveer to get him out of the way. But Vikram says that cell phone tracking is not accurate, and that he got a call from Raghuveer's phone at 11 30 PM. Jatil has no evidence. Jatil is also perplexed that there are no fingerprints on Raghuveer's phone.During an interrogation with Chunni, Jatil finds she was the one who took the lamp up to Raghuveer's room and came back with the lamp which broke down on the stairs. She also refrains from divulging anything related to the current investigation, but does say she couldn't even see her father who died in that road accident and case got closed. She indicates that the family will kill her the same way they killed her father, if she says anything. Jatil starts investigating the death of Raghuveer's first wife and her driver. He finds that another city's police had reported a similar car and it was filed as hit and run case. The station has the evidence from the case, which includes parts of a truck. The truck markings reveal that it is from Jajmau, Kanpur. This leads him to a tannery in Jajmau which is run by a butcher, but was originally owned by Munna Raja.Further investigation into the family reveals that Karuna doesn't like her aunt Pramila and her cousin Vikram's interference since they are constantly eyeballing her. Karuna says that Pramila is ruthless and will do anything for Vikram. Later, Jatil finds a medical report and in the morning Chunni is found dead near the back stairs. He later fights with his colleague Narendra (After Jatil alleges that Munna Raja was involved in the death of Raghuveer's first wife and her driver) and openly tells the SSP that he will find the truth. Later he is attacked by the goons and calls Narendra for help, but Narendra ignores him and he tells him that he is going to arrest Radha. Jatil immediately warns Radha to run, but before she can run away Ravi chases her and she locks herself in a room. Jatil comes in time to take her away, but goons continue to chase them. They are able to catch a train though unknown to them one of the goons (The butcher) also catches the train. Later in the night Radha wakes up to see Jatil is missing. She takes her knife with her and finds Jatil being attacked by the Butcher working for Munna Raja. Both overpower the Butcher and throw him out of the train. Jatil and Radha reach Raghuveer's Gwalior farmhouse. During this time Narendra Singh is investigating the murder of Chunni and forensics tells him about the dead skin found in her fingernails leading him to the conclusion that the suspect is a man with burnt skin.Narendra makes the report and goes to SSP, but he sees the man having fingernail marks on burnt hand in the office of SSP with Munna Raja. He goes to Chunni's grandmother and shows her the photo of the man. He informs about all of this to Jatil. In the meantime Jatil finds a piece of a dress in Radha's bag having the same bead he found earlier, he confronts her that she was in fact in the room and she lied, she confesses that she and Vikram had an affair and planned to elope with Vikram but he didn't as he planned to marry MLA's daughter, seeing this she got furious and called Vikram to come and talk, he returned as soon as he dropped his fiance and parked the car and without anyone noticing took the back stairs and confronted Radha. As she was going to enter the room to tell Raghuveer about the affair, the lights went out and Chunni comes upstairs with the lamp. As the electricity comes back, they all find Raghuveer already dead. Vikram tells her to go downstairs and meanwhile Vikram tells Chunni to call on his cell from Raghuveer's phone.After this, while returning Chunni drops the lamp on the stairs. Vikram takes the backstairs and returns by the main gate and asks the women to come to go for the temple. Later Jatil informs SSP that he has made Radha surrender in another police station. Jatil finally gets time to open the medical report and finds the medical report under the name of Raghuveer's first wife and report was of abortion, and abortion was done one day before the accident. He inquires about it from her brother Ramesh who tells him that she was here with him as Karan caught malaria but left all of a sudden to Kanpur. Ramesh had called his sister that night on phone, and says he heard horns of the train but contradicting to this she was travelling by car. Jatil also inquired the caretaker of the farmhouse who told that she ordered him to call whenever Raghuveer came with another woman. Investigating the farmhouse, he finds the same erotic magazines, Polaroid photos, Polaroid camera and a badge of a boarding school. He visits the abortion clinic as well and watches the wedding video, too.He learns that Radha is being taken by police under the bridge on the orders of SSP. As Radha is being taken by Narendra Singh under the bridge the same van comes who were chasing Jatil with the butcher in it. The butcher comes out and inspect the van as he opens the van to take out Radha, Jatil who all along was accompanying her (with the help of Narendra) comes out and attacks resulting in cross-firing in which Radha gets injured but butcher escapes. As soon as butcher reaches his home Chunni's grandmother comes from back and throws oil onto him and burns him alive.In the climax, Radha comes with Jatil in the bungalow with everyone present he starts to tell the truth, He confronts Ravi Sisodia first that he is one who gave drugs to Karan and later the school caught him and Raghuveer bailed him out. It was in fact the butcher who killed both Raghuveer's first wife and driver and burnt the bodies in the tannery on the orders of Munna Raja. Mrs. Raghuveer was tipped off by the caretaker about a female whom Raghuveer brought in the farmhouse. On peeping through a window, Mrs. Raghuveer finds out the woman is none other than Vasudha, Pramila's daughter. Vasudha was sexually abused many times by her uncle Raghuveer who took perverse photos of her and forced himself upon her. As a result of Vasudha's abortion, she was expelled from school. The school informed the local guardian of Vasudha, who was Raghubeer himself. Abortion was on 14th. Vasudha was suspended on 15th and the same night Mrs Raghubeer and her driver were killed. On 16th Chunni filed a missing report for her father (the driver who was murdered with Mrs. Raghuveer during their fateful car ride back from Kanpur). The case got closed without due investigation.It is revealed that Vasudha killed her uncle because when she confronted him with the truth, he dismissed her claims and insulted her and asked her to kill herself. In a fit of rage, Vasudha she takes out his gun and shoot him point blank. Later, Vasudha takes out her dress cloth and puts it in the Radha's bag. The change of dress cloth is noticed by Jatil in the wedding video while he is surveying the footage for clues. It is also revealed that Mrs Raghuveer had called Pramila to tell her about the fact that her daughter Vasudha was being sexually abused by her husband Raghuveer. After the truth is shared with Pramila, she is shocked but uses the opportunity to bury the truth.Mrs. Raghuveer was originally going to go back to her brother's home but Pramila begs her to come to back Kanpur. Meanwhile, Pramila reaches out in desperation to Munna Raja (the local MLA and friend of the family) and hints at killing Mrs. Raghuveer who in on route back to Kanpur. She is afraid that Mrs. Raghuveer will take them out of their property to avoid any controversy. Pramila uses the opportunity to broker a deal with Raghuveer to get a lion's share of the property transferred on her son Vikram's name so that she is paid for her efforts while nurturing the family. Munna Raja is revealed to have bought Radha from his father for Raghuveer to placate his sexual desires and to leave Vasudha alone (Pramila knew this). After being confronted with the truth, her son Vikram shuns her in disgust. Karuna cries in disbelief. Karan watches. Vasudha is teary eyed and in shock that her mother tried to save her perpetrator. Pramila kills herself to save face. During Pramila's cremation, Vasudha tells Jatil the truth.Jatil goes back to his normal life with his mother who is intent on finding a suitable match for him. He catches up with Radha's train and subtly asks her to spend her life with him, which she shyly accepts. [less]
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